the hero’s journey embodied re-enchantment …the hero’s journey embodied re-enchantment and...
TRANSCRIPT
THE HERO’S JOURNEY
Embodied re-enchantment and compassionate listening
The Hero’s Journey is a structure developed by comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell. It is a common template
found in hero myths across cultures describing the stages of a hero who goes on an adventure, enters a region of
wonder and enchantment, faces a crisis, and returns home transformed with gifts to share with his community. As such
it offers a map of initiation into life’s challenges and contradictions, and a way to behold our ordinary life stories as
extraordinary feats of courage.
The day will act as an introduction to the Hero’s Journey. Drawing from the Ritual Theatre model of dramatherapy and
from conflict resolution methods, we will be using creative methods, gentle movement and discussion, to share stories,
inhabit ourselves a bit deeper, play, and find resources for life’s unfolding delights and troubles.
“Come! I’ll show you the enchanted garden of your heart. Once you enter, you become the fragrance of flowers unafraid of the prickle of thorns” – Rumi
When: 4th
May. 10:30 – 17:00
Where: Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin St, Dalston, London E8 3DL.
Cost: 25£, but if you want to attend and cost is an issue please contact us.
Book through eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-heros-journey-embodied-re-enchantment-and-compassionate-listening-tickets-59909161916 For more information please contact Alex at [email protected]
Facilitators:
Alex Ioannou is a creative arts psychotherapist (registered dramatherapist) and facilitator. He has worked as a therapist in the NHS, in charities and privately with people facing the end of life and their families, with grief, as well as people recovering from trauma and people with mental health difficulties. His work encourages conversations between the somatic and the imaginal, developing our capacities for personal and cultural healing.
Sue McAlpine has been practising and teaching tai chi and chi kung for many years, using its body language to help understand and heal difficult life situations. She also works with conflict resolution, story telling and narrative to make sense of where we are on our life’s journey. She brings as much of this as she can into her role of Museum Curator at the Migration Museum working with immigrants and refugees.